Community members, peace advocates, and loving souls like yourself are creating the LIVING AHIMSA PEACE MANDALA from local grains, seeds, and legumes that are blessed with mantras, prayers and positive intention. After the mandala is created, the seeds are placed in the earth to spread the healing. The Living Ahimsa Peace Mandala pays homage to Mother Earth for her bountiful gift of food, water, air, and evokes our spirit of gratitude for all we give and all we take. By invoking the power of the Mother, we are able to empower our individual memory of wellness and awareness to nourish, nurture and heal ourselves, each other, and the earth.

We take this Vow as we place the organic seeds and grains onto the sacred earth. Our Sankalpa - sacred intent - is to live a life of ahimsa, which means taking the necessary steps to cultivate a life of good health and inner harmony, doing no violence or harm or self-hurting in our thoughts, speech and action.

Women play the most powerful role in the preservation and nurturance of our earth -inside and out. Innate to our nature is the Shakti- primeval feminine power - the energy and vibration that naturally safeguards the intelligence and abundance of the Mother. The Living Ahimsa Peace Mandala pays homage to Mother Earth for her bountiful gift of food, water, air, and evokes our spirit of gratitude for all we give and all we take. By invoking the power of the Mother, we are able to empower our individual seed memory of wellness and awareness to nourish, nurture and heal ourselves, each other, and the earth.

Maya Tiwari has been teaching health and advocating for peace for the last thirty years. She offers a revolutionary idea: that women contain the power within themselves to reconnect with their Shakti and ultimately heal themselves, family and community. In discovering our connection to the healing power of their Shakti energy, we transform disease and despair into health and inner harmony. Contemporary women are faced with unprecedented levels of stress, and fatigue and a profound disconnection with their inherent femininity; you will learn the importance of restoring the Shakti energy necessary to revitalize your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Note: To enjoin the Living Ahimsa Peace Mandala effort around the world, write to us for more details: peace@wisearth.org

MISSION OF THE PEACE MANDALA

Creating a Peace Mandala with Mother Nature's organic grains and legumes and seeds bestow life and prana (breath) to the heart of humanity. In this way, we pay gratitude to Mother Earth and remember the spiritual agreement we made before birth- that is, to serve the inner peace and restore the splendor of love and humanity on earth.

In contributing to our creation, we take the Vow of Ahimsa to never again forget our unified purpose of creating peace within and without. The Vow is a reminder for each and every person who seeks the common goal of non-hurting, inner harmony and world peace and the renewal of hope in their lives. As we join spirit in creating the Peace Mandala, we bear witness to each other, to give strength and courage to make this commitment to healing, inner harmony and self-peace. Through the Vow of Ahimsa and the creation of the Peace Mandala we can disseminate this healing vibration throughout the world. Indeed, the future of our earth is riven with nature's massive movements and reorientations, with a prescient decree of death, tragedies, and destruction.

Ultimately, it is you and I, the human person, who has the power to change darkness into light, ignorance and intolerance into wisdom and understanding. We must take back the world of peace and goodness and healing for all! First though, peace must start within. It starts with each one of us cultivating the inner world of harmony and love. If we can remain poised in peace, we can create inner harmony. And in so doing, we manifest abundant resources with Mother Earth's blessing to enjoy love for all, health for all, and food for all. Simply by utilizing each and every ray of light that streams into our awareness, we can pierce through to the bottom of darkness and expose hope and love. After all, these are transformers that conduct light into lightness and intelligence into knowing.

Our objective is to get 1 billion world citizens to participate in creating the Peace Mandala and taking The Vow of Ahimsa in person at the Living Ahimsa Peace Tour, led by Maya Tiwari. You can begin by taking the Vow online at www.ahimsalife.com; and seal your intent, "Peace starts with me!" by becoming a Peace Leader and gathering community members to create a Peace Mandala. You may also dedicate this Peace Mandala to a cause that is close to your heart's purpose. For more information, go to: http://ahimsalife.com/pm.php

Note: To enjoin the Living Ahimsa Peace Mandala effort around the world, write to us for more details: peace@wisearth.org

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GET INVOLVED! CREATE YOUR OWN PEACE MANDALA

Download your Peace Mandala Tool Kit here and get started with creating the Living Ahimsa Peace Mandala from local grains, seeds and beans. Be the first to bring the Vow of Ahimsa's blessing of love, peace, mantras, prayers and positive intention to your community.

PEACE MANDALA - COMMUNITY EVENTS

Your Ahimsa Vow is essential to Humanity's Harmony, Health & Hope

Living ahimsa teaches us to reinforce the indelible bonds that bind us together as a human family- love, enlightenment, humor, and kindness. Living Ahimsa is humanity's work - a primal call to take back the world! That is, the world within. Each day that we enjoin spirit, breathe and pause and look up in awe at the wonderment that is creation is a day spent in harmony.

Express what Living Ahimsa means to you by any means you choose: Just as long as your intention is to resolve negativity and disharmony into positive vibrations of health, harmony and hope. Keep in mind that Living Ahimsa is not about what we oppose, dislike, distrust or have an aversion for. It is the opposite of all negative thoughts, habits, emotions and actions. It is the most positive act we can invoke and inculcate in our lives. In strengthening our collective resolve to Living Ahimsa, we must refuse to participate in or condone disharmony, and violence in any form.

YOUR PARTICIPATION IN SPREADING THE VOW OF AHIMSA IS CRITICAL: HERE IS HOW YOU CAN JOIN US TO TAKE BACK A LIVING AHIMSA WORLD

Simple Ways to Living Ahimsa:
The forms of non-violent action are many. From very personal - silence, fasting, prayer, charitable action, writing inspirational song, poetry and prose for peace, - to collective campaigns, peace marches and concerts, as well as protective actions for the preservation of nature, the environment, and our food source. The most important form is your inner work-what we do each and every day to create the mind of awareness in a life of harmony-free from conflicts and confusion.